Ted Jenner is one of the more enigmatic figures in comtemporary New Zealand literature. He has lived overseas for most of the last three and a half decades, teaching Classics at universities and schools and producing poems, translations, and scholarly articles in his spare time. Over the past year Jenner has been busy preparing Writers in Residence and other captive fauna, a selection of a his writing from the past thirty years, for publication. Scott Hamilton and Brett Cross caught up with Ted late last year.